Tuesday, July 19, 2022

07/19/2022 - First Post: What to Expect

Hello. Nice to meet you. Words simply can't describe how glad and happy I am that you came across this brand new blog of mine, but I'll try to make them - I feel like, with each additional person that's stumbling across my creations, my artistic works and projects, I feel more and more like I'm contributing something creative and artistic to the world, and thus I feel more like myself and my dreams (of which I might not even fully understand myself), whatever they are, are coming truer and truer.
Anyway, enough of that.
I thought about something like this for quite a while. I wanted to have a specific and particular kind of outlet for expressing things such as the current status of my artistic projects, Decimate Our Kind or otherwise, as well as other statements I feel are necessary for me to make under the Decimate Our Kind profile name. Admittedly I am writing this more for the satisfaction for myself, as opposed to my fellow metalheads (I don't want to use the word "fans" or any equivalent like "followers" because I really don't like calling people who like my work my fans/followers, for that implies a hierarchical relationship between myself and them. We are equals, the people who like my work are obviously people who enjoy the arts, and as for myself, the creator of my works, I'm just another person who enjoys the arts. Nothing more, nothing less), but I do hope that you enjoy what you're reading and I welcome you into an additional section of my nerdy, metal world.
I'm not intending on fully committing to this project in any way. My primary focuses are, obviously, on my music (Decimate Our Kind, and the bands I'm in, more on that in the future) and my other writing projects (short stories, a novel I'm working on, multiple memoirs and nonfiction book-length projects, several personal journals, and of course poetry and lyrics). Don't expect me to write posts here all that often. That being said, I will definitely not refuse the opportunity to write here when I deem it necessary. After all, although IRL I'm very much an introverted, shy nerdy metalhead, when given a pen (figuratively speaking, technically "keyboard" is a more accurate term), I have a lot to say.
As briefly mentioned before, the stuff I will be writing and posting here includes but it not limited to: updates on the current status of my projects, mostly Decimate Our Kind projects but probably other stuff too, written commentaries on already completed DOK projects, and my statements/takes on topics that relate to music, the arts, literature, politics, religion, etc.
Hopefully you find my totally unprofessional and perhaps laid-back and lazy-minded blog posts worth reading.  Thanks very much for everything.